WUT. I had no idea it was that easy to make @katscratch
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I imagine your version would be much fancier 
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FWIW I did not have success making my own. It was never smooth enough or creamy enough.
Remember, tomatoes are fruit! I love red sauce in the winter. As for more traditional fruit options- I like to cook up big batches of cooked apples and cranberries in winter, apples and rhubarb in early spring. Great on its own or with cottage cheese. Freezes super well too.
Bananas with oats for two ingredient cookies, frozen fruits with yogurt or oatmeal, especially overnight oats.
Oh! And squash. Is it a fruit? Butternut squash is very sweet. I love it oven roasted with butter, cinnamon and maple syrup.
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For the tracking I’m doing, tomatoes and squash all count as veggies (even if botanically they’re fruits).
I’ve done apple-cranberry crisps. That fruit base would definitely be good for oatmeal or yogurt. (I’m weird and like cottage cheese on its own without anything else – maybe a sprinkling of black pepper at most).
I somehow basically forgot the existence of oatmeal – my brekkies recently have all involved eggs somehow (eggs n toast, eggs n polenta n spinach, etc). Oatmeal is an excellent fruit-giver, tho.
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Ironically, I never eat oats for breakfast. Lol. Eggs and sausage is my breakfast every day, oats I eat throughout the day. I may be weird.
Why do you track fruits and veg separately like that out of curiosity?
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I actually was thinking that oatmeal as a snack is a pretty good thing…
I’m tracking vegetable intake right now because it fell sooo much over the holidays and I wanted to urge myself back to a more veggie-minded culinary style. If I just track daily fruit-n-veg servings, I end up basically getting into a culinary rut where I pick three things that get me lots of veggies, and I eat them over and over, and then I have a boredom!tantrum and it all falls apart. I’m instead tracking vegetable subgroup intake over the week (beans/peas, starchies, red/orange, leafy dark greens, etc) and it feels a lot more like a glorious treasure hunt instead of something tedious. It’s making me cook and eat more broadly and it’s been really good so far!
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Seriously tho.
mention of some disordered thinking around food
For a heckin long while I’ve been way too influenced by the weird cultural zeitgeist that holds that Starchy Vegetables Are Very Bad For You. It’s made me think of potatoes as not-good. Except potatoes, like all starchy vegetables, are GREAT for you in certain amounts! Doing the veggie subgroups this way is explicitly making me seek out things like potatoes and it’s been really good – both delicious and mentally freeing.
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Learning a few years ago that potatoes and dairy was a nutritionally complete diet blew my mind.
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I fucking love potatoes.
Any short ladies have a good source for basic, cheap cotton tank tops? Bonus if they also make built in bra camis.
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Mossimo camis at Target stores before 2015 but that probably doesn’t help you 
(I had quite a few with spaghetti straps, shelf bra, cotton that always felt too short)
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Omg, I had like 3 of those too!
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I like the wide strap ones with no bra shelf … But my go to is H&M basics. The batch from 5-7 years ago I made myself donate (assumed fabric recycling) when I switched into mat clothes, and the batch from 2-3 years still looks new. They have long and short versions depending on preference.
For incredibly long, works as a slip under a dress length, Primark longline vests. These require a trip to England or forcing someone else to buy them for you, but I love them.
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Whaaaaat? I thought Primark was UK only? My whole world just changed. Your fantasy new city is amazing.
Do you also have a small airport for little baby recreational planes?
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So did I @Elle !!! There is one at the hilariously named KING OF PRUSSIA mall. I can’t get over the name, I half expect to be flanked by footmen playing brass instruments as I enter, but nope.
IDK but that sounds cute AF.
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Mind blown.
Okay. Places I’m going to ask to go on vacation next year:
Santa’s village
The Zoo
North Carolina
MaHamVer
Philly
The Bahamas.
The cottage
Camping.
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Haha YES. I will take you to the promised land, where tank tops are cheap and the food court is also pretty good.
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